This year´s Christmas preparations have been even more tense than before: the parting with Vaclav Havel has brought emotions and moments of reflection to many families, Petr Sabata writes in daily Hospodarske noviny today.
The present is also bleak, it is not favourable for unconcerned joy since people do not know whether the whole of Europe is not headed for a big trouble, Sabata writes.
For the same reason, this Christmas may be exceptional in that most of the previously serious worries are ridiculously trifling, he writes.
"Be together during the Christmas time, as close as possible to your family people. We wish you much hope, truth and love," Sabata writes in an allusion to Havel´s motto saying that the truth and love will prevail.
The parting with Vaclav Havel is accompanied by many memories, historical photographs and period documents that bring back to mind the times of censorship, speeches by communist big-wigs, servility and many other negative phenomena of the previous regime, Robert Casensky writes in Mlada fronta Dnes.
Seen from this point of view, the present time does not look that bad even though corruption and various scandals bother people who are irritated by various examples of stupidity in politics, false election promises, distribution of lucrative posts after the elections, and many other negative phenomena, Casensky writes.
All this only "angers" people, but it does not threaten their lives, freedom or human decency. Everything that seems to be unbearable now, is beyond any comparison with the system in which people lived until 1989, Casensky writes.
Havel´s death has allowed people to once again look at their recent history and to find out the huge value of free life, Casensky writes.
Some older communists have refused to pay tribute to Vaclav Havel, saying he was not their president, and they are right, Karel Steigerwald writes elsewhere in Mlada fronta Dnes.
Havel was not their president just as this republic is not theirs. They are staying in it only temporarily, waiting for their time to come again, Steigerwald writes.
He says all those citizens who want that someone be not theirs, table an interesting question. Whose is the state, the president?
It was easy for the communists. They used to call it internationalism and it meant that their state as well as president are in Moscow, where there was no president, however, Steigerwald writes. Author: CTK
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